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109TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION S. RES. 337 

To condemn the harmful, destructive, and anti-Semitic statements of 

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the President of Iran, and to demand an apology 

for those statements of hate and animosity towards all Jewish people 

of the world. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

DECEMBER 16, 2005 

Mr. SANTORUM (for himself, Mr. BROWNBACK, Ms. MIKULSKI, Ms. 

STABENOW, Mr. CHAMBLISS, Mr. NELSON of Florida, Mr. COLEMAN, Mr. 

BOND, Mrs. DOLE, Mr. LAUTENBERG, Mr. LIEBERMAN, Mr. SMITH, Mr. 

NELSON of Nebraska, Mr. DEWINE, Mr. VITTER, Mr. ISAKSON, Mr. 

TALENT, Mr. STEVENS, Mr. MARTINEZ, Mr. VOINOVICH, Mr. ROCKEFELLER, Mrs. FEINSTEIN, and Mr. SALAZAR) submitted the following 

resolution; which was considered and agreed to 

RESOLUTION 

To condemn the harmful, destructive, and anti-Semitic statements of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the President of Iran, 

and to demand an apology for those statements of hate 

and animosity towards all Jewish people of the world. 

Whereas Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the President of Iran, declared in an October 26, 2005, address at the World 

Without Zionism conference in Tehran that ‘‘the new 

wave that has started in Palestine, and we witness it in 

the Islamic World too, will eliminate this disgraceful 

stain from the Islamic World’’ and that Israel ‘‘must be 

wiped off the map.’’; 
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Whereas the President of Iran told reporters on December 

8th at an Islamic conference in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, 

‘‘Some European countries insist on saying that Hitler 

killed millions of innocent Jews in furnaces . . . although 

we don’t accept this claim.’’; 

Whereas Mr. Ahmadinejad then stated, ‘‘If the Europeans 

are honest they should give some of their provinces in 

Europe . . . to the Zionists, and the Zionists can establish 

their state in Europe.’’; 

Whereas on December 14, 2005, Mr. Ahmadinejad said live 

on Iranian television, ‘‘they have invented a myth that 

Jews were massacred and place this above God, religions 

and the prophets.’’; 

Whereas the leaders of the Islamic Republic of Iran, beginning with its founder, the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, 

have issued statements of hate against the United States, 

Israel, and Jewish peoples; 

Whereas certain leaders, including Ahmadi Nezhad, and the 

Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, have similarly called for 

the destruction of the United States, and the Islamic Republic of Iran has funded, armed, trained, assisted, and 

sheltered leading terrorists, including terrorists in Iraq 

who use Iranian support to kill military personnel of the 

United States; 

Whereas an estimated 6,000,000 Jews were killed in the Nazi 

Holocaust; 

Whereas the remarks of President Ahmadinejad have been 

denounced around the world and condemned by among 

others, the political leaders of the United States, Arab 

nations, Israel, Europe, and the United Nations; 
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Whereas it is a crime in the Federal Republic of Germany 

to deny the existence of the Holocaust; and 

Whereas the United Nations, in General Assembly Resolution 

181 (1947), recommended the adoption of the Plan of 

Partition with Economic Union for Palestine, which 

called for an independent Jewish State: Now, therefore, 

be it 

1 Resolved, That the Senate— 

2 (1) condemns the recent statement by President 

3 Ahmadinejad that denied the occurrence of the Hol4 ocaust and supported moving the State of Israel to 

5 Europe; 

6 (2) demands an official apology for these dam7 aging, anti-Semitic statements that ignore history, 

8 human suffering, and the loss of life during the Hol9 ocaust; and 

10 (3) reaffirms the need for Iran to— 

11 (A) end its support for international ter12 rorism; and 

13 (B) join other Middle Eastern countries in 

14 seeking a successful outcome of the Middle 

15 East peace process. 

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